The idea was to record using 'hill-and-dale' modulation, with the grooves packed closer together because there would be no risk of overlap.

Germantown's hill-and-dale terrain attracts cyclists, who loop around the pretty country roads.

The recorded sound of Lyric vertical-cut discs is superior to most other contemporary American "hill-and-dale" records.

The vertical cut (or hill-and-dale cut) grooves were often not deep enough to keep the stylus from skidding across the surface of the cylinder.

"78 rpm" gramophone record formats: lateral versus vertical "hill-and-dale" groove cutting.

Edison tried to get into the disc market with hill-and-dale discs, Edison Disc Records.

Mr. Loquasto's hill-and-dale décor and Ms. Tipton's misty lighting set the village scene.

In this ballet, the prima ballerina is a hedgehog in a gingham dress who picks her way daintily over a cleverly simulated hill-and-dale setting.

The new discs were also hill-and-dale, recorded with a relatively fine groove-pitch of 150 lines per inch, so a ten-inch side played rather longer than usual (about five minutes).

Between beach and border is a land that is almost 90 percent hills and mountains, much of it pleasant hill-and-dale agricultural land where church steeples crown every high point.

That the hill-and-dale decor of "Eventide" corresponds with such pictorial aptness to the typical English tone of the Vaughan Williams music is only one intriguing element here.

IRENE will only read lateral information (monophonic), but a three-dimensional scanner project is underway that will handle stereophonic and quadraphonic records, in addition to historical hill-and-dale recordings.

Edison for many years used the "hill-and-dale" method with both cylinder and disc records, and Emile Berliner is credited with the invention of the lateral cut Gramophone record in 1887.

Early disc recordings and phonograph cylinders had about the same audio fidelity (despite the cylinder's theoretical advantages of constant linear groove speed and greater dynamic range of the hill-and-dale groove geometry).

The truth is that the hill-and-dale aura of the performance comes more from Mr. Cunningham's compositional use of open space and the choreography's fresh gamboling rhythms than from any literal relationship to the all-purpose prop.

"Behind the Music," an hourlong music-biography show that tends to focus on artists with dramatic, hill-and-dale careers (MC Hammer, Boy George), has the highest rating of any of VH1's weekly series.

(If you want more perspective, there's also EMI-Virgin's new two-disc retrospective of Iggy Pop's whole hill-and-dale career, "A Million in Prizes," including a handful of Stooges songs.)

Pathe Freres also adopted the hill-and-dale system in France, but this was done at the behest of the French government in order to create a deliberate incompatibility, preventing French citizens from playing 'inappropriate' foreign records.

Edison, Bettini, Leon Douglass and others solved this problem (partly) by mechanically linking a cutting stylus and a playback stylus together and copying the "hill-and-dale" grooves of the cylinder mechanically.

Royal Trux's production sound is so jarring and alien - with so much bleeding of sound, layering of tracks, hill-and-dale dynamics and deliberate gunk - that its skill at making records is quite naturally underrated.

The early issues were vertically cut in the gramophone record grooves, using the hill-and-dale method of a U-shaped groove and sapphire ball stylus, but they switched to the more popular lateral cut method in April 1919.

This excludes grooved recordings such as cylinders and some radio transcriptions which feature a hill-and-dale format of recording, and stereophonic or quadraphonic grooved recordings which utilize a combination of the two as well as supersonic encoding for quadraphonic.

Victor and most other disc record companies used side to side or lateral motion of the stylus in the record groove, whereas in the Edison system the movement was up and down or vertical (also known as "hill-and-dale" motion), as in a cylinder record.